Detective Melissa Mercado of NYPD's Special Victims Division has been ... review and scrutiny of her off-duty activities. Retired officer and attorney Eric Sanders argued that Mercado’s ...

Mercado, who’s been on the force for seven years and works in the Bronx’s Special Victims Unit, made a surprise appearance in rapper S-Quire’s video for “Doin’ That” NYPD detective ...

An NYPD officer was struck by a car and pinned between two vehicles in Manhattan after the driver of a Dodge Charger careened into him Friday morning. The 26-year-old uniformed officer was walking ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.— For decades, the son of late NYPD Officer Gerard Carter struggled ... As a teenager, he became involved in gang activity in and around West Brighton. At the time, two ...

Chief of Department Terence Monahan, the NYPD’s highest-ranking uniformed officer, was admitted to ... to reinstate the department’s anti-crime unit, which was disbanded in June but whose ...

Detective Melissa Mercado of NYPD's Special Victims Division was pulled from active investigations after appearing in a controversial rap video by S-Quire. The video, seen as degrading to women ...

A former New York City Police officer from Northern ... who served with the NYPD between July 2013 to May 2022, was assigned to the 52nd Precinct’s Public Safety Unit. Much of her work with ...

NYPD officers also speak out, alleging systemic racism and a policy of targeting ethnic minority communities in order hit their arrest quotas.

City Council members and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are calling the NYPD’s gang database a civil rights abomination that must be obliterated. They’re wrong, wrong, wrong.

The NYPD’s gang database plays a crucial role in both preventing and solving violent crime. Gangs are responsible for 65 percent of the city’s shootings, with retaliation often occurring within hours ...